Views on Winslow Creek. This stream heads on the southern slope of the Aquarius Plateau, Utah Territory, flows south and east along the slope of the Escalante Fold, and empties into the Escalante River. A Canon. No. 163. Photographed by John...

Views on Water Pocket Creek. This stream heads at the foot of what is known as the Great Fold, in Utah Territory, runs along its base, and empties into the Colorado River. No. 180. Photographed by John K.(Jack) Hillers;

Report to Bear River Compact Commissioners on Bear River Compact and Analysis of stream flow records, June 23, 1948 / prepared by W.V. Iorns, project engineer, U.S. Geological Survey. Includes tentative draft of Bear River Compact. Page 24 is...

Bear River Compact--History; Bear River Commission--History; Water rights--Utah; Water rights--Idaho; Water rights--Wyoming; Water resources development--Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Bear River (Utah-Idaho); Bear Lake (Utah and Idaho)

Map of the drainage basin for the Bear River with contour lines showing elevation. Features marked: latitude and longitude lines, cities, lakes, rivers, and state boundaries. Map colors are red, blue, brown, and black on ivory paper. Top right...

Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Father (David Ridgway), May 9, 1867. The letter detailed to Robert's father what kind of equipment he had been outfitted with for the U.S.G.S. expedition.

Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Mother (Harriet Ridgway), June 24, 1867. This letter, titled Sacramento, California, Camp no. 1, U.S.G.S. described to his father the establishment of the survey party's first camp.

Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Mother (Harriet Ridgway), August 11, 1867. This letter was sent from Camp #12 at Big Bend of Truckee, Nevada. The letter described to his mother his trip from Sacramento, California through...

Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Father (David Ridgway), September 1, 1867. This letter was sent from Camp #17, "Banks of the Humboldt River," and it described, to his father, his trip with Mr. Parker (an Indian agent) and...

Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Father (David Ridgway), October 15, 1867. This letter was sent from "Camp #19 Buena Vista" and discussed his summer's field work. Of particular interest in this letter was a list of Paiute...

Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Sister Fannie (Ridgway), January 14, 1868. This letter was sent from "Headquarters U.S. Geological Exploration 40th Parallel, Carson City, Nevada and detailed photographs that he had sent...

Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to (Harriet Ridgway?), n.d., postmarked the Great Salt Lake City, Utah. Part of this letter is missing, but the existing piece discussed survey events, and it mentions some of the party...

Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Father (David Ridgway), January 19, 1869. This letter was sent from the Smithsonian Institution and it discussed specimen collecting done the previous year on the survey.

Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Mother (Harriet Ridgway), June 14, 1869. This letter was sent from the U.S.G.S. headquarters, Salt Lake City, Utah. It mentioned family matters, Granville Turner, and Spencer Baird.

Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Mother (Harriet Ridgway), February 11, 1871. This letter was sent from the Smithsonian institution and mentioned his completed manuscript compiled from his survey trip. He went on to tell...

Map of the Great Basin, including the states of Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho. Basins of the Columbia River and the Colorado River are drawn in red, with Pacific and Atlantic drainages indicated. Other details include...

Map of prehistoric freshwater Lake Bonneville showing its main body and Sevier body, with the Provo water area marked in blue. Lake Bonneville was about 10 times larger than today's Great Salt Lake which actually is a remnant of Lake Bonneville. ...

Letters of introduction prepared for Robert Ridgway by Spencer Baird to Samuel Hubbard, May 8, 1867. The letter asked Hubbard to assist Ridgway in preparing for his upcoming trip, with Clarence King, to the West.

Index of Gaging Stations, 1925. Handwritten tables provide gage height in feet and discharge for 84 gaging stations for streams and rivers in the Bear River Watershed (mostly located in Utah). Data covers the summer of 1925 (June, July, August,...

Bad Lands. Near Caspar. Dep't of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories. Views in the Rocky Mountains. Prof. F.V. Hayden, in charge. "Rocky Mountain Series." Photographed by William Henry Jackson;

No. 63. Hayden's Peak, or the Great Teton. Dep't of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories. Views in the Rocky Mountains. Prof. F.V. Hayden, in charge. "Rocky Mountain Series." Photographed by William Henry Jackson;

This reports on a study looking at one aspect of pinyon-juniper land management, converting woodlands to grasslands. The study was done jointly with the Bureau of Land Management and the Geological Survey to look at land treatment practices in the...

Juniper -- West (U.S.); Land use -- West (U.S.); Pinyon pines -- West (U.S.); Public lands -- Utah -- Management